#NEWS | 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit Türkiye today to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul.

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—🇲🇩/🇷🇴 Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu:

Our citizens on both sides of the Prut River are increasingly aware that we are very close to unification.

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—🇭🇷 NEW: Consumer prices in Croatia rose 4.8% year-on-year in March, according to preliminary data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics.

➡️ This marked the highest inflation rate in the euro area that month, Eurostat figures show.

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⚖️🇷🇴🇷🇴 #BREAKING Călin Georgescu's judiciary control was lifted, meaning he can leave the country anytime.

He was initially put under judiciary control right after the presidential elections in may 2025, when he quoted Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on live television:

"He, who fights even alone, for God and his Country, will never be defeated."

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—🇷🇸 FACT: On 6 April 1941, Nazi Germany launched a devastating air assault on Belgrade on Orthodox Easter, killing thousands and destroying much of the city’s center during the opening phase of the invasion of Yugoslavia.

➡️ Among the targets was the National Library of Serbia, which burned to the ground with its entire collection, erasing a large part of Serbia’s written cultural heritage.

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—❗️🇷🇸 URGENT: Serbian security forces say they have discovered explosives of “devastating power” near the Balkan Stream/TurkStream gas pipeline in northern Serbia, a key route carrying Russian gas to Serbia and onward to Hungary.

➡️ Two backpacks containing explosive packages with detonators were reportedly located a few hundred meters from the pipeline near Kanjiža, prompting heightened security measures and a joint investigation with Hungarian authorities after PM Viktor Orbán was informed.

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—❗️🇷🇸/🇺🇦/🇭🇺 UPDATE: Serbia’s military intelligence chief says Ukraine was not involved in an alleged explosives plot near a key gas pipeline to Hungary, contradicting earlier suggestions from Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán.

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—🇪🇺 NEW: European tech firms including IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian and BTactic have launched Euro-Office, a fully open-source, Microsoft-compatible office suite positioned as Europe’s “sovereign” alternative for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, with a first stable release planned for summer 2026.

➡️ The initiative targets public administrations, education and enterprises seeking to keep governance and data under European jurisdiction and reduce dependence on US cloud providers.

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—❗️🛢🇧🇬 NEW: Fuel prices in Bulgaria have risen by 37% since the war between the US and Iran.

ℹ️ Information reported by our source in Bulgaria.

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—🇧🇬 UPDATE: The agreement became a big scandal in Bulgaria.

➡️ Apparently, the caretaker government took the initiative to sign this agreement without the knowledge of the Presidency or the Council of Ministers.

➡️ The current president, Iliana Iotova, has denounced the PM, stating that the caretaker government does not possess such powers or liberty without an active and elected parliament.

ℹ️ Information reported by our source in Bulgaria.

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